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Still, the buzzword in cyberspace these days is community. Every Website must incorporate a place for people to chat--your newspaper, your favorite vodka, even the John (Entertainment Tonight) Tesh home page, whose virtual commons is called Tesh-Talk. Never mind that what passes for community online is mostly people typing cranky messages at each other. Community is the bankable truth of the moment...
...basic right as equal opportunity a cause for elation? It seems more like a cause for indignation The fact that such a fundamental right should be up for grabs says something sad about America, or Americans. In an era in which "family values" becomes ever more of a buzzword, overwhelming support could be offered for such a blatantly discriminatory policy. The irony is that over 50 percent of heterosexual marriages fail and, as The New York Times pointed out, at least 20 of the voting senators have been divorced...
...fourth floor of Garden Street was a veritable cornucopia of diversity. A word with powerful positive associations, "diversity" has become the buzzword of the educational establishment in the 1990s. College viewbooks use it on every page. Crimson profiles of the undergraduate houses proclaim each house "unified yet diverse, diverse yet unified." The term is invoked so frequently that it seems to have lost any real meaning. Instead, it simply functions as attractive packaging for controversial liberal programs. When President Neil L. Rudenstine wanted to defend Harvard's affirmative action policies in the wake of a heated national debate over racial...
Interaction is a buzzword at Cybersmith. Marshall Smith, the store's founder and the man behind Booksmith, Videosmith and Learningsmith, originally wanted to call his newest brainchild "Interactivity-smith," until his son talked him out of it, employees...
...travesty of free speech principles. But we Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III condemned the in a statement last week and said he would like to personally to the people responsible. Such a college administrator rightfully reminds us that we respect for others, on this campus whose buzzword...